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Weekend Words: Sweet
Tomorrow begins National Candy Month.
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Weekend Words: Arm
This week came the report of a new robotic arm that can be operated with the power of thought.
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Weekend Words: Nails
As reported this week in the New York Times, Governor Andrew Cuomo has ordered emergency measures to address wage theft and health hazards faced by the thousands of people who work in New York State’s nail salon industry
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Weekend Words: Mother
Happy Mother's Day.
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Weekend Words: Left
On Thursday, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders announced his candidacy for President, and will run against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination.
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Weekend Words: Piano
On Mayday, the new Whitney Museum, designed by Renzo Piano, opens to the public.
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Weekend Words: Happiness
This week it was reported that the first recordings ever made by Elvis Presley, "My Happiness" and "That’s When Your Heartaches Begin" (both 1953), have been digitized and will be released by Jack White’s Third Man Records.
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Weekend Words: Dry
In response to a prolonged dry spell, the state of California has instituted mandatory water restrictions, bringing to mind the line from Chinatown (1974): "Middle of a drought, the water commissioner drowns. Only in L.A."
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Weekend Words: Egg
It's Easter, have an egg.
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Weekend Words: Sight
John Bramblitt of Denton, Texas, lost his sight 13 years ago but paints vivid portraits and landscapes by "feeling" the textures of different colors.
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Weekend Words: Knight
Spanish investigators report they may have discovered the remains of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, better known as Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote, in a convent in Madrid.
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Weekend Words: Half
This week, Hyperallergic’s Laura C. Mallonee reported that the Friedenstein Foundation in Gotha, Germany, is seeking the upper half of the 16th-century painting “Bowl With the Head of John the Baptist” by Lucas Cranach, which was sawn in two by an art dealer in 1936.